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Leaving the emperor to cast his languid eyes over objects of art for which he had no admiration, and to open his unwilling ears to panegyrical orations for which he had no comprehension, we proceed to introduce the reader to an apartment on the opposite side of the palace, in which are congregated all the beauty and elegance of his Court.
Besides his Songs, little panegyrical Poems and Sonnets, he wrote two Satires against Nell Gwyn, one of the King's mistresses, though there is no account how a quarrel happened between them; the one is called Madam Nelly's Complaint, beginning, If Sylla's ghost made bloody Cat'line start. The other is called the Lady of Pleasure, with; its Argument at the Head of it, whereof the first line is,
Birmingham, indeed, has recently been styled "the best governed city in the world" a title that is, perhaps, a trifle too full and panegyrical to find ready and general acceptance.
But omitting an exact comparison of their respective faculties in speaking, yet thus much seems fit to be said; that Demosthenes, to make himself a master in rhetoric, applied all the faculties he had, natural or acquired, wholly that way; that he far surpassed in force and strength of eloquence all his contemporaries in political and judicial speaking, in grandeur and majesty all the panegyrical orators, and in accuracy and science all the logicians and rhetoricians of his day; that Cicero was highly educated, and by his diligent study became a most accomplished general scholar in all these branches, having left behind him numerous philosophical treatises of his own on Academic principles; as, indeed, even in his written speeches, both political and judicial, we see him continually trying to show his learning by the way.
When spoken of by his admirers he was generally described by such panegyrical periphrases as 'soul of the country, 'foundation of the State, 'the only real, and true, and substantial being; while, on the other hand, those who presumed to differ from those sentiments were in the habit of styling him 'the dead weight, 'the vampire, 'the night-mare, and other titles equally complimentary.
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